CVE-2018-14370

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-07-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.7, the IEEE 802.11 protocol dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/crypt/airpdcap.c via bounds checking that prevents a buffer over-read.

Affected products

Wireshark Foundation Wireshark: from 2.4.0 through 2.4.7; from 2.6.0 through 2.6.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104847
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041608
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14686
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b1446124eebc3ea5591d18e719c2a5cff3630638
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-43.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00027.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104847
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041608
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14686
https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b1446124eebc3ea5591d18e719c2a5cff3630638
https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2018-43.html

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